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On 31 October 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Trunk-or-treating, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that trunk-or-treating was created as a safer alternative to regular trick-or-treating? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Trunk-or-treating. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Trunk-or-treating), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:03, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 15,738 views (655.8 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of November 2024 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 01:31, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I like this one! Good work. Panini! • 🥪 18:42, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, @Panini!! :) ~ Tails Wx 01:27, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tails thank you. I finally found the undo button on desktop mode. --Globallycz (talk) 08:55, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, welcome, welcome Tails Wx! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2024 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Cielquiparle (talk) 13:14, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The 2024 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round being a very tight race. Our new champion is AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who scored 2,283 points mainly through 3 high-multiplier FAs and 3 GAs on military history topics. By a 1% margin, Airship beat out last year's champion, BeanieFan11 (submissions), who scored second with 2,264 points, mainly from an impressive 58 GAs about athletes. In third place, Generalissima (submissions) scored 1,528 points, primarily from two FAs on U.S. Librarians of Congress and 20 GAs about various historical topics. Our other finalists are: Sammi Brie (submissions) with 879 points, Hey man im josh (submissions) with 533 points, BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 432 points, Arconning (submissions) with 244 points, and AryKun (submissions) with 15 points. Congratulations to our finalists and all who participated!

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 7 FAs, 9 FLs, 94 GAs, 73 FAC reviews, and 79 GAN reviews and peer reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.

• Generalissima (submissions) wins the featured article prize for 3 FAs in round 4, and 7 FAs overall.
• Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured list prize for 23 FLs overall.
• MaranoFan (submissions) wins the featured topic prize for 9 articles in featured topics in round 1.
• Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured content reviewer prize for 110 FA/FL reviews overall.
• BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the good article prize for 58 GAs in round 5, and 70 GAs overall.
• Fritzmann (submissions) wins the good topic prize for 6 articles in good topics in round 2.
• Sammi Brie (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize for 45 GA reviews in round 2, and 78 GA reviews overall.
• BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 131 Did you know articles overall.
• Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 15 In the news articles in round 1, and 36 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2025 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!

If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:49, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Kevin Davis (police officer) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Thebiguglyalien -- Thebiguglyalien (talk) 21:01, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article Kevin Davis (police officer) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Kevin Davis (police officer) and Talk:Kevin Davis (police officer)/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Thebiguglyalien -- Thebiguglyalien (talk) 22:42, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article Kevin Davis (police officer) you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Kevin Davis (police officer) for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Thebiguglyalien -- Thebiguglyalien (talk) 04:23, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

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Oversighter changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

Thanks for starting the GA review on Tornado outbreak and derecho of April 1-3, 2024! Due to some personal things, I'll address your comments by Monday, as today I'm a bit busy. :) MemeGod _chat 18:33, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sir MemeGod: no problem! Those are my initial comments at first, so take your time in responding to those comments. ~ Tails Wx 18:56, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 20:47, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, um how do I edit the title of a page? Anytime I create one, weather its in sandbox or not, it just says User: SpaceNerd13. Could you please give me some help?

-SpaceNerd13 --SpaceNerd13 (talk) 00:03, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, @SpaceNerd13! If you're going to "edit" the title of a page, that would require moving the page to the requested name for the title to be changed. There should be your userspace sandbox User:SpaceNerd13/sandbox – you just haven't created that page yet. If you're asking on how to publish an article, you could create one by writing one under a specific name -- but since you're a newcomer, I highly suggest you go through a draft process first. Let me know if you have any further questions or if there's something I missed! ~ Tails Wx 05:18, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

story · music · places

For a surprise, a Bach cantata is on the Main page today, where it was last year for the 300th anniversary, and they were too lazy to find something new ;) - Look at my story, and listen to the 3 whole-tone steps and the dialogues of Fear and Hope. - An open letter open to be signed (more info on the talk, and the Signpost above), - I haven't checked if you did, please ignore then. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:42, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]